Indigenous hubs

The indigenous hubs focus on locations with indigenous knowledge pertaining to reindeer husbandry, fishing, hunting and the traditional use of other natural resources. Indigenous communities live their lives across and parallel to the rest of Arctic society for parts of their sustenance. Simultaneously their lives are influenced by infrastructure and services often developed with someone else, living a different kind of life, in mind. Due to the interconnectedness of indigenous …

Fish farming hubs

Aquaculture is an economic sector that has developed over the past couple of decades on an industrial scale across numerous Arctic waters. In no small part, recent rapid growth has occurred due to the increase in global demand in particular for Atlantic Salmon (salmo salar) which dominates aquaculture production in the region. Mirroring the domination in production of a single species, the business of fish farming which initially spawned a …

Tourism hubs

Tourism has emerged as one of the most rapidly growing sectors in the Arctic region and one towards which many hubs are turning. For a great number of tourists and global tourism companies alike, the Arctic has evoked images of unspoilt wild landscapes, extreme climate and an ideal place to escape the pressures of everyday life! Often stimulated by news of retreating ice caps and diminishing populations of polar bear, …

Hubs

At the heart of the ArcticHubs project’s pioneering approach are the 22 ‘hubs’. What we mean by the term ‘Hubs’ Hubs are nodes hosting either a combination of economic activities, or one main industry or means of livelihood, where the challenges and impacts facing the Arctic region are tangible and acute. Five main sectorial hubs have been identified inside the Arctic and these are fish farming, forestry, tourism, mining and …